August 7th is appreciated as the National Handloom day, a practice inaugurated by Prime minister Narendra Modi in the year 2015. It was on August 7th, 1905 "Swadeshi" movement, a call to Boycott the use of foreign goods and increase the use of local products was started at Calcutta in Bengal. It is no surprise that the same day was selected to celebrate as the National Handloom Day as it was them who were the worst hit during the colonial days when finished loom products where imported from England and local artisans lost their jobs. The famous Kanchipuram sarees of Tamilnadu, the golden silk 'Muga mekhala Sador' of Assam, 'Paithani' weaving of Maharashtra, Benarasi Sarees of UttarPradesh are some of the glorious examples of Handloom.
For the dying craft of handlooms, mercilessly pushed aside by the power looms need not only our support in terms of purchasing handloom products but also require development of infrastructural facilities like availability of raw materials, accessibility to the market, financial assistance etc. on an industry level.
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